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How to Make Money in the Soviet Union

In Ukraine, I used to have to go to the post office to call home in 2001. Even then I didn't have a mobile phone. To finance those phone calls, I hooked up with some black marketeers. They were called for social key back then. That was the slang for them. And it was a pretty complicated operation that's exposed how the Soviet system worked and how corrupt it was.

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